The Portrait

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Arts and letters

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What Wikipedia says

"The Portrait" (Russian: Портрет) is a short story by Russian author Nikolai Gogol, originally published in the short story collection Arabesques in 1835. It was significantly revised in 1842. The story shares themes with some of his earlier works such as "St. John's Eve" and "Viy".

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Image: Aleksei Ilyich Kravchenko, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.